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Page 8
Shall it fulfill the statement of the Concord sage — “ You send your son to the
schoolmasters , and the schoolboys educate him ” ? or shall a strong faculty
make and mark the whole tone of the institution ? In these and other forms is the
same ...
Shall it fulfill the statement of the Concord sage — “ You send your son to the
schoolmasters , and the schoolboys educate him ” ? or shall a strong faculty
make and mark the whole tone of the institution ? In these and other forms is the
same ...
Page 9
The mind gropes round restlessly by a yearning instinct ; it may be driven by the
strong impulse of native genius ; or it may rise to the condition of being the facile
servant of the forceful will . When the boy at Pisa curiously watches the oil lamp ...
The mind gropes round restlessly by a yearning instinct ; it may be driven by the
strong impulse of native genius ; or it may rise to the condition of being the facile
servant of the forceful will . When the boy at Pisa curiously watches the oil lamp ...
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The strong stimulus of such a self - moved activity , thoroughly aroused ,
becomes in Choate or Gladstone the fountain of perpetual youth , and forms the
solid basis of the titanic scholarship of Germany . It stood embodied in the life
ELEMENTS ...
The strong stimulus of such a self - moved activity , thoroughly aroused ,
becomes in Choate or Gladstone the fountain of perpetual youth , and forms the
solid basis of the titanic scholarship of Germany . It stood embodied in the life
ELEMENTS ...
Page 14
What can be more admirable than the workings of the trained legal , or rather
judicial , mind , as it walks firmly through labyrinths of statute and precedent and
principle , holding fast its strong but tenuous thread , till it stands forth in the bright
...
What can be more admirable than the workings of the trained legal , or rather
judicial , mind , as it walks firmly through labyrinths of statute and precedent and
principle , holding fast its strong but tenuous thread , till it stands forth in the bright
...
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But the mother wit proves not strong enough , perhaps , to push forth and show
itself over the ponderous débris above it , the enormousness , or , if you please ,
the enormity , of his knowledge . It requires a first - class mind to carry a vast load
...
But the mother wit proves not strong enough , perhaps , to push forth and show
itself over the ponderous débris above it , the enormousness , or , if you please ,
the enormity , of his knowledge . It requires a first - class mind to carry a vast load
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Anniversary Addresses |
| Author | Samuel Colcord Bartlett |
| Publisher | Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Company, 1894 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2009 |
| Length | 517 pages |
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